Sometimes I miss the 2016 version of myself, where I would get a mild dopamine boost about funny jokes about the orange man, or seeing a celebrity endorse my favorite DNC war criminal - blissfully unaware of global politics, war, and genocide.
I pop in there every so often to look for names, then sort by controversial and do the same
Today, hot sort as of right now: 19 headlines have Trump, 0 have Biden (the current president), 6 have Harris (3 have Trump and Harris)
Most are lib burns on Trump and the like
Notables: A headline featuring Liz Cheney shitting on Trump, one headline called ‘3 tell tale signs that Harris will beat Trump’
Controversial sort: 5 have Trump, 6 have Harris, 2 have Biden
Most are about Israel, Gaza, or election outcomes
Notables: One headline in there is an op ed by an IDF arms manufacturer (who supports Harris and more upvotes than comments), one is about poor people being apathetic about voting (and has 0 upvotes and 40 comments)
I hate these people so much.
bots*, not people. its election season and the candidades are campaigning on reddit. relatively easy to buy space on the frontpage over there. you might remember r/redditminusmods, or the few “it was all bots all along” controversies.
reddit has a well known mod problem: with some of them modding all major subs with their shitty bias, some who took money to allow/disallow some bullshit, or some that straight up represent the corporations the user sub is supposed to provide a good forum for.
redditminusmods was a sub that simply posted daily screencaps of what reddit would look like without them, going by mod logs or something. i think it represents the mod problem very well, reddit would be much less ragebaity and notably less reactionary on some instances.
once in 9/11, amid the usual, some arab sub posted a video of the bombings that ensued in the middle east and they got upvoted right to the frontpage then promptly shadowbanned and erased, the thread was GONE it was pretty funny.
i think i may have used a terrible example with redditminusmods because it had the spotlight for a very short while there. very eye-opening of the problem though.
